Glad you found this helpful. I figured it out about two months ago. And only after talking to others, I realized a large number of people had no idea what those little circles on the tool bar did. So, I thought I'd share. Stay tuned for an upcoming video showing how I use them to manipulate entire groups of objects at once.
Thanks for that tip. I view Lightburn's directions like a Webster dictionary. It may teach you the words but it doesn't teach you how to put the words together to form a sentence. I think there is room for much improvement in this area.
I think it comes down to right brain vs left brain. One is analytical. The other is creative. Even though they are both speaking English, they aren't always speaking the same language. But thanks to my strokes, I'm now neither right or left brain. I'm scrambled brain. 😀
When creating unique designs, I'm constantly changing the anchor point position. I sometimes find myself positioning a shape within a shape and finding it needs to be resized. I can select the appropriate anchor point and resize it without losing its position. This keeps me from having to reposition it a second time. Learning when to use them and which one will save time when designing.
Thanks for the subscription. If you haven't yet, check out the channel youtube.com/@lasermakersrealm It is only free projects. None of my long winded blah, blah, blah.
Steve, my light burn looks different. My nine dots aren’t up top on the menu bar. Mine are in the laser menu, down in the laser tab. I thought I had finally done lost it until I saw them hidden in plain sight on the screen…lol
The menu bars are movable. If you want to relocate them, look for the vertical line of dots on the left side or top of the menu. Hover over the dots until your cursor changes to a four-way cursor arrow and drag the menu anywhere you like. Thanks for watching and thanks for your service.
Actually what had happened was I was on an older version and hadn’t updated to the latest greatest, hence I did not have the other set of dots for rotation.
Page 22 of the LightBurn manual, section 3.4.7 says: "The lock button can be used to maintain the aspect ratio of your objects when changing the size, and the 9-dot control lets you choose the point that positioning and sizing happens from. The number entry boxes accept equations and units, too - You can enter 5mm, 5in, 5", 5*3mm, and so on, and LightBurn will calculate the correct result for you." So I guess it's called the "9-dot control".
Will using anchor points fix this issue. I typed out the 12 months horizontal. Came out to be 21 in. Selected all months rotated it vertically to fit longer bed. Engraved it was 1/8 in higher on the right. Zoomed in on lightburn grid and it is higher on the right. I rotated the right side down but it raised the left side. I am trying to get it one straight line. No elevation.
This doesn't sound like an anchor point problem so much as a rotation and alignment problem. It is hard to say what happened since I cannot see how you did what you did. BUT if you do it this way, you shouldn't have an issue. 1.) Type out your months. 2.) if you didn't type them in one constant text line, be sure they are all aligned on the center horizionatal centerlines. Then group them. Depending on the font used, aligning them to their bottoms could also create an undesired outcome. 3.) Once aligned, select the entire line of text and hit the Comma key to rotate counter-clockwise and the Period key to rotate clockwise. This method of rotation will not change the alignment in any way. Again not seeing what you are doing or trying to do, this is my best guess to resolve your issue.
This may save you some headaches...
Very helpful. I have been using Lightburn for around a year and didn't know about that
Glad you found this helpful. I figured it out about two months ago. And only after talking to others, I realized a large number of people had no idea what those little circles on the tool bar did. So, I thought I'd share. Stay tuned for an upcoming video showing how I use them to manipulate entire groups of objects at once.
Very helpful. I now know what the little circles in the tool bar are for 🙄 Thanks 👍
Happy to help!
Great video, I’ve never seen any references to it either!
Thanks for watching!
Thanks for that tip.
I view Lightburn's directions like a Webster dictionary. It may teach you the words but it doesn't teach you how to put the words together to form a sentence.
I think there is room for much improvement in this area.
I think it comes down to right brain vs left brain. One is analytical. The other is creative. Even though they are both speaking English, they aren't always speaking the same language. But thanks to my strokes, I'm now neither right or left brain. I'm scrambled brain. 😀
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I must only use one side? :-)
Very interesting, just wondering why you would want something other than center?
When creating unique designs, I'm constantly changing the anchor point position. I sometimes find myself positioning a shape within a shape and finding it needs to be resized. I can select the appropriate anchor point and resize it without losing its position. This keeps me from having to reposition it a second time. Learning when to use them and which one will save time when designing.
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Thanks for the subscription. If you haven't yet, check out the channel youtube.com/@lasermakersrealm
It is only free projects. None of my long winded blah, blah, blah.
Steve, my light burn looks different. My nine dots aren’t up top on the menu bar. Mine are in the laser menu, down in the laser tab. I thought I had finally done lost it until I saw them hidden in plain sight on the screen…lol
The menu bars are movable. If you want to relocate them, look for the vertical line of dots on the left side or top of the menu. Hover over the dots until your cursor changes to a four-way cursor arrow and drag the menu anywhere you like. Thanks for watching and thanks for your service.
The nine dots on the laser tab are for setting the starting of the laser (nothing to do with what Steve was discussing).
Actually what had happened was I was on an older version and hadn’t updated to the latest greatest, hence I did not have the other set of dots for rotation.
Page 22 of the LightBurn manual, section 3.4.7 says:
"The lock button can be used to maintain the aspect ratio of
your objects when changing the size, and the 9-dot control
lets you choose the point that positioning and sizing
happens from. The number entry boxes accept equations
and units, too - You can enter 5mm, 5in, 5", 5*3mm, and so
on, and LightBurn will calculate the correct result for you."
So I guess it's called the "9-dot control".
I stand corrected. It is mentioned in passing. Once.
Will using anchor points fix this issue. I typed out the 12 months horizontal. Came out to be 21 in. Selected all months rotated it vertically to fit longer bed. Engraved it was 1/8 in higher on the right. Zoomed in on lightburn grid and it is higher on the right. I rotated the right side down but it raised the left side. I am trying to get it one straight line. No elevation.
This doesn't sound like an anchor point problem so much as a rotation and alignment problem. It is hard to say what happened since I cannot see how you did what you did. BUT if you do it this way, you shouldn't have an issue.
1.) Type out your months.
2.) if you didn't type them in one constant text line, be sure they are all aligned on the center horizionatal centerlines. Then group them. Depending on the font used, aligning them to their bottoms could also create an undesired outcome.
3.) Once aligned, select the entire line of text and hit the Comma key to rotate counter-clockwise and the Period key to rotate clockwise. This method of rotation will not change the alignment in any way.
Again not seeing what you are doing or trying to do, this is my best guess to resolve your issue.
let´s name the "lock button" to "anchor point". It´s really better!
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Hobo anchor point just like the Hobo method.